The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1924, Page 3

\ @A|| Ze WoridesLabor- POWER HOUSE STRIKE CLOSES LONDON SUBWAY “Communists Did _ It!” Say Labor Leaders LONDON, June 8.—A strike which is @redited to Communists by labor offi- cials has paralyzed London’s gigantic network of subways today. Power house workers in approxi- mately two-thirds of the city’s plants overruled objections of organized la- bor leaders and walked out, Not more than 10 per cent of the subway trains, which carry millions to and from work each day, were in operation and street cars, busses and cabs were unable to handle the over- flow. Many thousands tramped to work from the subways. The power house workers demand- ed an advance of 10 shillings a week and a minimum wage of £3 a week, with one week’s paid vacation each year. Labor leaders declared the strike unofficial and charged that Commun- ist influences were back of it. 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MILLERAND TO GET BOOT, HIS OPPONENTS SAY Discredited President Won’t Resign PARIS, June 8.—President Miller- and, haying refused to resign at the request of the Socialists, the latter were considering ways and means to force him out today. They appeared to have a majority in the chamber of deputies in support of an extremist proposal to pass a vote censuring the president. Meanwhile Millerand went about the business of finding a premier. The president resumed conversations with leaders of the senate and cham- ber at the Elysee, and it was believed he would find a successor to Poincare by evening. Among those with whom he talked was Franklin Bouillon, who negotiat- ed the treaty of Angora and is now a deputy. When Millerand declared himself for constitutionality yesterday, and announced he expected to continue in office until the end of his seven years’ | term, Edouard Herriot, who had been slated for the premiership, merely re- plied that he could not accept the office. 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Delivery o' - terns ordinarily will take at least 10 ‘8 from the date of mailing the order. not become impatient if your pattern is not received by return mal Send in that Subscription Today. TRICKS STATE REPORTS SHOW JOBS ARE HITTING BOTTOM Seven Per Cent Decrease in One Year State reports showing deepening industrial gloom during April are con- firmed by the employment report of the United States department of labor covering 8,422 manufacturing estab- lishments thruout the country. The report shows that between March and April employment fell off 2.1 per cent and total wage payments 2.5 per cent, The entire manufacturing plant of the country is shown operating at less than 74 per cent of full time capacity. The number on factory pay rolls is 7 per cent lower than in April, 1923. Compared with the peak of employ- ment in the post-war boom of 1920, employment has fallen approximately 19 per cent. It is 12% per cent below 1919, the census year when 9,096,372 wage earners were reported on the factory pay rolls. This means about 1,137,000 fewer workers than were employed by manufacturing industry in 1919. The foMowing index numbers show employment in manufacturing since 1920.. The monthly average on pay rolls in 1923 is taken as 100 per cent, and the variations during the period are shown as per cents above or be- low that average. Per Cent Employed. 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 January 116 77 87 98 95 February 115 83, 88 100 97 March .... 117 84 «84 102 96. April 117 84 83 102 95 May . 117 85 85 102 | June 118 85 87 102 July 110 85 87 100 August 110 86 88 100 September 107 87 91 100 October 103 89 93 99 November 97 89 94 99 2 December ...... O90: 97. OF ue Near 1920 Figure. These figures show clearly the de- |pression of 1921-1922 reaching the low ‘point in April, 1922, when the number was only 83 per cent of the average number employed during the follow- ing year. The figures also show that since the middle of 1923 the decline in employment has resembled that in the last months of 1920, altho it has not been so drastic, During April industries in the food group averaged 84 per cent of full time and 73 per cent of full capacity operation. Corresponding figures for other industries were textile group 89 per cent and 79 per cent, iron and ‘steel 85 and 74, lumber and products 95 and 89, leather 87 and 69, paper and printing 96 and 89, stone, clay and glass 92 and 85, vehicles 95 and 85, miscellaneous industries 93 per cent of full time and 74 per cent of full | capacity. Such figures indicate how the indus- tries’ have been expanded beyond the ability of consumers to purchase their products. Conditions on Board Canadian Government Vessels Appalling VANCOUVER, June 8.—Assurances of Canadian government merchant marine officials that conditions abroad Dominion government vessels would be improved are not materializing. This promise given after the Van- couver seamen’s strike in 1923 has been completely disregarded and liv- ing conditions aboard the government- owned vessels are worse. So bad are they that every time a Canadian mer- chant Vessel arrives in port the crew almost to a man leaves the ship, In- sufficient inferior food with vermin- ridden sleeping quarters make these vessels as bad as the old-time wind- jammers. Recently the crew of a government ship, the Canadian Rover, were forced to inoculation with cowpox, The en- tire crew developed fevers, Infections and sores refused to heal because of the dirt and coal grime to which they were exposed. In this condition the men were of no use as members were discharged, the company giving them only 24 hours notice whereas the ship’s articles required 48, Other crews on government vessels who re- fused to submit to being vaccinated were discharged and sent back to Vancouver without berth or meals be- ing provided. 1LY WORKER WORKERS CALLED BY COMINTERN TO CHALLENGE ROUMANIAN BOY ARS AND BANKERS’ OPPRESSIVE RULE To the Communist Parties and Revolutionary Organizations of all Countries! To the Workers, Working Peasantry and Oppressed Peoples thruout the World! The Roumanian Boyars (nobles) and bankers are deter- mined not to be outdone by the white guards on the other side of the Danube. In Bulgaria the bourgeoisie took a bloody re- yenge on the revolutionary workers and peasants, and now it is the turn of the Roumanian proletariat and of its class organiza- tions to be the target for the fierce attacks of the ruling clique of the country. Under the pretext of putting an end to the recent Fascist disturbances, the Roumanian government has declared mar- tial law, but the prisons of the country were filled with workers and Communists instead of Fascisti. Communist papers and the General Confederation of Labor itself were suppressed. Persecutions are the order of the day thruout the country. All leading comrades in the Communist and trade union movement have been arrested or are in danger of arrest. Working men and women and even young workers are subject to persecution, and no one is immune if he or she has shown devotion to the cause of the oppressed in any way. No work- ers’ meetings and no independent workers’ publications are allowed. In- human treatment is seted out to our imprisoned comrades. HUNGER STRIKES ARE AN EVERY- DAY OCCURRENCE. The Roumanian secret police is par- ticularly brutal and cruel in the ter- ritories annexed by Roumania. The Hungarian, Bessarabian and Bulgari- .|@m peasants have once more to experi- ence the horrors of the terrorist re- gime. Not so long ago comrade Ber- ger, the secrefary of the Communist party of Aransylvania and the Banat, was delivered by the “oumanian po- lice to Horty’s bandits. Also, five Bulgarian peasants were shot quite recently in the Dobrudja without trial. The Roumanian Boyars and bank- ers, who assumed the role of guard- fans of European civilization, on the borders of the barbarian East, gave an example of their cruelty and fe- rocity in 1907 when they crushed the peasant rising and shot several thou- sands of poor peasants. But since the Roumenian plutocracy has appropriat- ed large tracts of foreign territory and the dissatisfaction of the ruined and oppressed working and peasant masses has assumed enormous pro- portions, white terror has become the order of the day. December 10, 1918, will always be remembered, for on that day over one hundred workers taking part in a demonstration in Bucharest were shot down by machine guns. In connection with the general strike tn October, 1920, thousands of workers thruout the country were arrested, and sever- al hundred of them were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, In May, 1921, all those who participated in the congress of the socialist party were arrested, because the congress had decided to adhere to the Commun- ist International. After 16 months of ill treatment and tortures, the impri- soned comrades were declared inno- cent by the courts and set free. White Terror Spreading. The number of victims of the white terror is growing. The best workers are frequently done to death, natural- ly always under the pretext of the traditional “attempts to escape.” The imprisoned comrades in the salt mines and fortresses are doomed to a slow, but certain death and are ex- posed to indescribable physical and mental torments. ‘The recent mass arrests and mass persecutions are an answer to the GROWING STRENGTH OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, to the growth of the workers’ movement and to the struggle of the Communist party against the reduction of wages and salaries, for land for the peasantry, against the oppression and total ab- sence of rights of national minorities and for the right to self-determination for the peoples of Transylvania, Bu- kovina, Bessarabia and Dobrudja. Roumania Lets France Lead. The arrests are taking plage just at the time when the Soviet delegation at the VIENNA CONFERENCE is demanding the recognition of the right of selt-determination of the popula- tion of Bessarabia, and when, in spite A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN of the energetic support of Poincare, the attempt of the Roumanian robbers to legalize the act of violence against two million workers and peasants, has come to naught. By its reign of ter- ror, the Roumanian Government is proving to the oppressed peoples as nothing else could that they have no more faithful and devoted protector and defender of their rights than the Communists. The persecution of Communists and revolutionary workers is taking place just at the time when the Roumanian Boyars have finally became vassals of imperialist France, when they con- tract military alliances, embark on enormous war preparations, forge new chains for the masses and launch the country into new adventures. All these acts of the Roumanian bour- geoisie go to prove that the Commun- ists are the most determined enemies of military adventures and the staunchest champions of the vital in- terests of the masses. : Workers Will Win. The Roumanian Government, to- gether with its bourgeoisie, thinks it has beaten the “enemy at‘home.” But it is very much mistaken. The enemy at home are the millions of oppressed and ruined workers, clerks and pea- sants, in fact, thé working people as a whole. The Government cannot beat these masses that are numbered by the million. The workers’ and pea- sants’ government, which will be set up by the might of an overwhelming majority of the people, will put into practice the right to self-determina- tion of the oppressed nationalities, and will, in spite of everything, defeat THE BOYARS AND CAPITALISTS. Workers and peasants of the whole world: ‘ Raise your voice egainst the Rou- manian police terror! In your press and at meetings, expose the Roumani- an ministers and members of the roy- al family who parambulate the world begging for credits. Show your class solidarity with the enslaved peasants and workers of Roumania. Rally For Fight. Roumanian comrades: Do not flinch in your struggle. Do not recede. Close up your ranks more and more in the struggle for political liberties, in the struggle against the ruling class. Have faith in the Com- munist party, the champion of the working class in its struggle for the emancipation of all workers in town and country. Workers and peasants of Rou- mania! Retain your confidence in the Com- munist Party and its class organiza- tion! Communists are persecuted, op- pressed and ore suffering from many wounds. But they are not crushed. They find always new ways and means to approach the workers in factory and field. Firm confidence in them is the shortest way to victory for you. The Roumanian Communists and class-conscious workers and peasants do not stand alone in this struggle. The revolutionary workers and pea- sants thruout the world are their truest, strongest and most faithful allies. Long live the Roumanian Commun- ist Party! Long live the class organizations of the Roumanian proletariat! Long live the struggle of the work- ing class and of the peasantry! Long live the Communist Interna- tional! Executive Committee of the Communist International. United Workers Sunday Schools of Chicago Every Sunday Morning from 10-12. Gabor’s Hall, 634-Willow St. Feinen Hall, 3838 W. Grand Ave. I, O. G. T. Hall, 1041 Newport Ave. National Institute, 1041 Douglas Blvd, Vorwaerts Turner Hall, Roosevelt Road and Western Ave. Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd, 4021 N. Drake Ave. Social Turner Hall, Belmont Ave. and Paulina St. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service ti URE a lens Aa st Ladustry ¢-gneulture WA] STRIKE TIES UP CUBAN. ROADS: BANKS HARD HIT President Zayas Pledges Aid as Strikebreaker (Special to The Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, June 8,—Twenty thousand striking railway workers have tied up the Cuban railroads so completely that all business is begin- ning to feel the pinch of industrial paralysis. The nine banks constituting the local clearing house association have stopped cashing checks drawn on in- terior banks. This is caused by the fact that the mail service is practi- cally at a standstill and this makes impossible the necessary prompt pay- ment. President Zayas has promised the business men to do all in his power to end the strike which he attacked as unjustififiable. This means that Zayas will do all in his power to break the strike, as he did when the long- shoremen struck. The government then mobilized prisoners to handle freight. The companies are making desperate efforts to round up strike- breakers to displacé the workingmen who are manifesting great solidarity and are maintaining a firm front against the bosses and the Cuban gov- ernment forces. The strike began as a conflict be- tween the workingmen on the United Railways of Havana, controlled by British capital. Then the railway workers of the American owned Cuban railroad and the Cuban-American con- trolled Northern Railways of Cuba and the Guantanamo and Western railway struck in sympathy. Engineer and Fireman Killed. GALESBURG, Ill., June 8.—The en- gine and three cars of a Burlington freight train plunged thru a flood- weakened bridge three miles south of Vermont, Ill, W. E. Manuel, Gales- burg, the engineer, was killed in- stantly, W. F. Zimmerman, Qunicy, Il, the fireman, died later of injuries. Send in that Subscription Today. YES! Oh yes! They ® found it guilty! 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